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No. 624,738. Patented May 9, I899. P. BAZIN. TRAVELING MECHANISM FOR RING SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES.

(Application filed Mar. 15, 1898.)

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P. BAZIN. TRAVELING MECHANISM FOR RING SPINNING AND DOUBLING FBAMES.

(Application filed Mat. 15, 1898.)

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NITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIPPE BAZIN, OF OONDE-SUR-NOIREAU, FRANCE.

TRAVELING MECHANISM FOR RING SPINNING AND DOUBLING FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,738, dated May 9, 1899.

Application filed March 15,1898. Serial No. 6'7 3 902. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIPPE BAZIN, a citi- I zen of the Republic of France, and a resident of Cond-sur-Noireau, France, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Travcling Mechanism of Ring Spinning and Donbling Frames, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the traveling mechanism of ring spinning and doubling frames, and particularly to those travelers which are made, in the shape of a forked metal blade forming a thread-guide at one end and a compensating wing or vane at the other end.

The object of my improvementis to reduce the friction and wear between the traveler and the stationary ring.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved traveler. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the ring and its supporting-rail with the traveler in position, and Fig. 3 is a plan of the same. Fig. 4c is a plan, on an enlarged scale, of a portion of the traveler and a portion of the ring.

My improved traveler, as clearly shown in the drawings, is formed out of a metal blade or body a, slightly arched in mid-length and terminating on one side in a thread-guide G h and on the other side in a horizontal wing or vane 0. Above the vane c the traveler has a shoulder (I, through which it bears against the inner side of the ring e,which is supported, as usual, in a lifting-rail f. To this shoulder there is represented attached a small curved plate of stee1,hereinafter referred to as a protecting-plate, which runs against the ring. The compensating wing 0 works between the rail f and a second rail f, placed below the first and also provided with a ring e. The thread-guide G, according to my improvements, consists of a terminal hook, which I substitute for the upper branch of the ordinary fork, and an eye H, provided in the traveler at a little distance from said hook. A narrow slot h is formed in the upper edge of the traveler as an entrance to said eye. The

yarn passes under the hook G through the eye H and thence to the cop or bobbin without rubbing against the ring e, being protected from such rubbing by the portion of the traveler below said eye forming the bottom thereof. Iarrange the broad side of the lower branch of the fork horizontally, so that the edge of this single branch I offers the minimum resistance to the air when the traveler is in motion.

When the traveler is in motion, its shoulder d constantly bears against the inside of the upper ring e, and in order'to diminish friction and consequent wear a simple and efficient automatic lubrication is applied to the inside of the ring e, as follows: One: edge ofthe rail f is bent, as shown in Fig. 2, to

form a shallow trough J, which runs along the whole or any part of the length of the rail and forms an oil-reservoir for the lubrication of all or any number of the travelers on one side of the frame, and a narrow channel or groove j extends from the oil-reservoir along the top of the rail f to each ring e, which is drilled through at jopposite the channel. A wick is fitted in this hole jand carried back through the channel j into the reservoir J and dips into the oil in it, so that by capillary attraction oil is carried to the interior of the ring 6 and so to the shoulder d.

In order to protect the oil and the wick from dust and fly, a cover J of thin sheet metal, may be employed, as shown.

The protecting-plate D may be attached to the shoulder at or body of the traveler, as shown at Z in Fig. 3, in any suitable manner, but preferably by a universal joint m, as illustrated by the enlarged plan view, Fig. 4:, which renders the said plate self-adjusting and allows it to bear constantly with a full face against the interior of the ring irrespective of the position of the rest of the traveler, and so to reduce the wear between the traveler and the ring.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- 1. A traveler consisting of a metal body having at one end a thread-guide and at the other end a compensating wing above which is a shoulder, and a protecting-plate attached to said shoulder, substantially as herein set forth.

2. A traveler consisting of a metal body having at one end a thread-guide and at the other end a compensating Wing and a shoulder, and a protecting-plate connected with said shoulder by a universal joint, substan- 5 tially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 2d day of March, 1898.

PHILIPPE BAZIN.

Witnesses:

EDWARD P. MACLEAN, ALoIDE FABE. 

